The Grenada sentinel., 1887-02-26
elaborate affairs Of their lives are misera.

elaborate affairs Of their lives are misera-
bly, playing the fool.
1 stood on the beach, looking OF the sea,
and there was astrong wind blowing, and
I noticed that some of the vessels were
going that way, and other vessels were
going another way. SAID to myself:
'.How is it that the same wind sends one
vessel in one direction and another vessel
in another directionn
found out, by looking, that 1t was the
different way they had the sails set And
so does trouble come in this world. Some
men it drives into the harbor Of heaven,
and other men it drives on the rocks. 1t
depends upon the way you have your sails
set. All the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
of surging sorrow can not sink soul that
has asked for Gods pilotage. The diff-
Guilty is, that when we have misfortunes
of any kind, we put them in Gods hand,
and they stay there little while, and
then we 60 and get them again, and bring
them back. ..
A vessel comes in from a foreign port.
AS it comes near the harbor it sees pilot
floating about. 1t halls the pilot. The
pilot comes ON board, and he says:
"Now, Captain. you have had stormy
passage. Go down and sleep, and l will
take the vessel into New York harbor."
After awhile the Captain begins to
think:
"Am right in trusting this vessel to
that pilots guess I'll go up and see.'
So he comes to the pilot and says:
"Don't you see that rocka Don't you
see those headlandsa You will wreck the
ship. Let me lay hold the helm for
awhile for myself, and then I'll trust to
you."
The pilot becomes angry and says:
II will either take care of this ship or
not If you want to l will get into my
yawl and go ashore or back to my boat
Now, we say to the Lord:
20, God, take my life, take my all, in
Thy keeping! Be Thou my guide, be Thou
my pilot"
We go along for little while, and sud
denly wake up and say:
''Things are gong all wrong. o, Lord,
we are driving on these rocks and Thou
art going to let us be shipwrecked."
God says "You 60 and rest will take
charge of this vessel, and take it into the
harbor."
It is Gods business to comfort, and it is
"
the great thinker, philosophical about
himself, philosophical about this world,
| philosophical about every thing; then, in
in his dying moments, asked that only
one word might be cut upon his tomb
stone, and that word 'Infeliclssmus'-
most unhappy-des of the lives
and of the deaths of those who take their
case out of the hands Of God. The only
appropriate inscription for their banquet
ing hall, and their equipage, and the wall
of their eternal on-house-'Infelicis-
sinus" In drooling, moral idiocy they
are scrabbling at the door of their happi-
ness, which never opens; miserably play
ing the fool
Again, I remark that all those persons
| play the fool as certainly as i'd this man
of the text, who allow the technicallties of
religion to stop their salvation. David
was wise about great many things, but
his cuttings-up in the text for little
while eclipsed his character. And
know wise men and great man
competent for all other stations, who
are acting silly and foolish part in re-
gard to the technicalities of religion.
They ask us some questions which we
can not answer categorically, and so they
burst into broad guffaw, as though it is
! of any more interest to US than it ought
to be to them. About the atonement
about Gods DEGREES, about mans destiny
they ask great many questions which
we can not answer, and so they deride us,
as though we could not ask them thou
sand questions that they can not answer,
about their eyes, about their ears, about
| their finger nails, about every thing. A
| fool can ask question that wise man
can not answer. o, you caviling men
o, you profound men! o, you learned
men, do please admit something. Yor
have a soul9 Yes. Will it live forever!
Yes. Where' You say that Jesus Christ
is not divine Saviour. Who is he! Where
will you go after you leave your law
books, and your medical prescriptions,
and your club-room, aud your newspaper
of1ice-where will you 60 to? Your body
will be six feet underground. Where will
you soul be? The black coat will be of
the shroud on. Those spectacles will be
removed from your vision, for the soc
will press your eye-lids. Have 20,
any idea that an earthly almanac de
scribes the years of your lifetime? o
what stuff shall gather the material TO
the letters of that word which describes
your eternal homes Shall it be iron chaii
or amaranthine garland' The air tha
bestirs the besweated locks Of your dyins
!, pillow, will 1t come off garden or
desert9 e-.r
Oh, quit the puzzing questions and tr
these moment GUS questions. Quit tn
small questions and try these great ques
| I've IF ic al Huh